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GOP abortion plank rejects global trends

GOP's draft platform would restrict abortion more severely than other nations in the Western world. | AP Photo

By JOEL BRINKLEY | 8/27/12 11:02 AM EDT

No other nation in the Western world restricts abortion as severely as the Republican Party is calling for in its draft platform. It advocates forbidding abortion under all circumstances — a position the party has advocated for many years.

In fact, a United Nations study published last year shows that only four of the world’s 230 states forbid abortion under any circumstance. Each of those four Latin American nations — El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile and Dominican Republic — is predominantly Roman Catholic, which firmly opposes contraception and abortion. About 95 percent of Dominicans are Catholic, while fewer than one-quarter of Americans identify themselves as members of that faith.

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Rep. Todd Akin’s comments last week about “legitimate rape” pushed the abortion issue to the forefront of the national political debate, even though the differences between Democrats and Republicans on this issue have simmered in the background for decades.

But now the Republican Party has placed itself in a position in which it could be totally alone in the world. In addition to calling for a total ban on abortions, Republicans are also attacking Planned Parenthood, the organization that provides health services for poor women nationwide — including abortion referrals in most of its offices.

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that Texas can end financing for Planned Parenthood clinics. The Republican-controlled Legislature there passed a law last year forbidding state funding for any organization affiliated with abortion providers. Eight Texas Planned Parenthood offices that say they do not provide abortion services challenged the law in court, and a federal appeals court judge stayed the law until the organization’s appeal goes to trial in October. Tuesday the judge was overruled.

Planned Parenthood is under assault from conservative Republicans nationwide. That agenda is isolating them. Even the four Latin American nations that forbid abortion under any circumstances all provide government-funded, family-planning services, the United Nations reported. So do Iran, Bangladesh, North Korea and Timor Leste, the Southeast Asian state that is the world’s most heavily Catholic state. Only 2 percent of Timorese identify with another faith.

Every nation is different, but while most offer help with contraception, in the nations where abortions are not allowed they obviously do not openly provide abortion services. But where abortion is not legal, underground abortion is quite common.

“Unsafe abortions continue to be widespread, and nearly all are performed in developing countries,” the U.N. said. The World Health Organization reported that 19.7 million back-alley abortions were performed in 2003. That number rose to 21.6 million in 2008, the last year for which statistics are available.

The U.N. added, “globally, it’s estimated that 47,000 women lose their lives each year from the complications from unsafe abortions, almost all of which could have been prevented through better access to sexuality education.”

While America would be alone if all of the Republican’s abortion goals became policy or law, other nations do debate these issues. Canada, like the United States, allows abortion on request. Thirteen of every 1,000 women get an abortion each year. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s conservative party continually tries to bring the abortion up for debate. Harper may not support abortion, but he continually refuses. When he was running for office in 2004 he explained clearly why he would not bring up the issue.

Recall that horrific scene in the movie Prometheus when a woman astronaut goes through an alien extraction? She knew she had an alien implanted in her and ended up having to deal with its extraction herself using automated surgery. If abortion foes Paul Ryan and Todd Akin were with her on that ship they would have done everything possible to prevent the alien embryos’ extraction. Although their position would have been consistent, that is, any unborn life trumps that of the mother (host), it is still a cruel anti-woman position.all

When conception occurs as a result of rape or incest, an alien implantation has occurred and an alien extraction is necessary. A hideous monster has implanted his seed in an unwilling host. An alien extraction is not an abortion. Destroying this unholy seed is also necessary so that the alien implanter cannot come back to haunt the victim by claiming, as one did recently, that a raping monster deserves parental rights.

Obama even supported abortion for infants after the birth (if they manage to survive the killing doctor) as IL Senator..... check factcheck.org and Washington Posts under infanticide ... this is what you get with liberal abortion supporter.

Is this meant to be journalism or it a paid ad by the DNC? Please stopping printing lies on your website, the republican platform does not forbid exceptions it simply avoids the issue and it is only the far left screwballs who want to use lies and fear to cover for their failed policies who believe that. Well them and the sheep of course. You should pull this biased piece of crap and print a retraction.

Barack Hussien Obama is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.

Barack Hussien Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.

Obama's game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.

Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?

It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues.

It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).

A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).

All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America.

The official position of the World Natural Health Organization in regards to global warming is that there is NO GLOBAL WARMING! Global warming is nothing more than just another hoax, just like Y2K and the global freezing claims in the 1960's and 70's were. Global warming is being used to generate fear and panic. Those behind this movement are using it to control people's lives and for financial gain.

They deny evolution The Scientific Case Against Evolution by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.

Belief in evolution is a remarkable phenomenon. It is a belief passionately defended by the scientific establishment, despite the lack of any observable scientific evidence for macroevolution (that is, evolution from one distinct kind of organism into another).

This odd situation is briefly documented here by citing recent statements from leading evolutionists admitting their lack of proof.

These statements inadvertently show that evolution on any significant scale does not occur at present, and never happened in the past, and could never happen at all.

The reasons that many women decide to have abortions some of which are , they are not ready emotionally or finianceially or the pregnacies were unintended ( they had not planned or wanted to get pregnant). Because black women experience so many more unintended pregnancies than any other group—sharply disproportionate to their numbers in the general population—they are more likely to seek out and obtain abortion services than any other group. In addition, because black women as a group want the same number of children as white women, but have so many more unintended pregnancies, they are more likely than white women to terminate an unintended pregnancy by abortion to avoid an unwanted birth. It is not an attack on the Black race and you could not call Planned Parenthood to be racist because they perform abortions to more Blacks than Whites any more than you could call a homeless shelter to be racist because they shelter more Blacks than Whites.

Did you even read the artical by factcheck.org it clearly stated Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 "born alive" bills as backdoor attacks on a woman’s legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been "fully in support" of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade. It went on to say . And there are already laws in Illinois, which Obama has said he supports, that protect these children even when they are born as the result of an abortion. Illinois compiled statute 720 ILCS 510/6 states that physicians performing abortions when the fetus is viable must use the procedure most likely to preserve the fetus’ life; must be attended by another physician who can care for a born-alive infant; and must "exercise the same degree of professional skill, care and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as would be required of a physician providing immediate medical care to a child born alive in the course of a pregnancy termination which was not an abortion." Failure to do any of the above is considered a felony. NRLC calls this law "loophole-ridden."Both of which point out the fact that you lie what you say is false

We recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans' Second Amendment right to own and use firearms. We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation, but we know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne. We can work together to enact and enforce commonsense laws and improvements - like closing the gun show loophole, improving our background check system, and reinstating the assault weapons ban, so that guns do not fall into the hands of terrorists or criminals. Acting responsibly and with respect for differing views on this issue, we can both protect the constitutional right to bear arms and keep our communities and our children safe.

T. It is not an attack on the Black race and you could not call Planned Parenthood to be racist because they perform abortions to more Blacks than Whites any more than you could call a homeless shelter to be racist because they shelter more Blacks than Whites.

Apparently you want to deny the aim of Planned Parenthood:.

Many Americans–black and white–are unaware of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project. Sanger created this program in 1939, after the organization changed its name from the American Birth Control League (ABCL) to the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA).

The aim of the program was to restrict–many believe exterminate–the black population. Under the pretense of "better health" and "family planning," Sanger cleverly implemented her plan.

Sanger built the work of the ABCL, and, ultimately, Planned Parenthood, on the ideas and resources of the eugenics movement. Grant reported that "virtually all of the organization’s board members were eugenicists." Eugenicists financed the early projects, from the opening of birth control clinics to the publishing of "revolutionary" literature.

Eugenicists comprised the speakers at conferences, authors of literature and the providers of services "almost without the exception." And Planned Parenthood’s international work was originally housed in the offices of the Eugenics Society. The two organizations were intertwined for years.

Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government grants and contracts from 2008 to 2009 alone, all at the expense of the U.S. Taxpayer and the lives of unborn babies.

How many lives are we talking about? 324,008 unborn human lives destroyed in one year. How many adoption referrals? 9,433.

If there was a consensus on honor killing around the world, would you expect this country to go along with it because of the consensus. If the consensus 2+2=5 would you expect this country to go along with it. If it's wrong, it's wrong. It doesn't matter what the consensus is. Sooner or later the MSM is going to have to think outside of the stupid box.

America : Maintain your Leadership position in the World by standing by Human Rights for all Mankind, even the Defenseless Child in the womb!....do not succumb to Barbarism ! Leave that to the Evil Empires and Dictatorships in the World !

Are we supposed to care what the sickos at the UN think? They are the ones who should be called out for promoting the abortion of millions of babies, something promoted by the left which is part of their racist policies to kill as many non-whites as possible.

We are the shining city on a hill, let us not be dragged into the moral sewer of the UN. Why should we care what they think? They are the ones who need to think about why the support a racist, eugenicist agenda to kill black people.